smell a rat
to recognize that something is not as it appears to be or that something dishonest is happening:
He's been working late with her every night this week - I smell a rat!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Suspecting & questioning
- call
- call into question idiom
- cynic
- cynical
- dispute
- doubter
- doubting Thomas
- I'd like to see... idiom
- if
- misgiving
- niggle
- query
- question
- reservation
- sceptical
- skeptic
- skeptical
- smell
- suspect
- suspiciously
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